“He murdered two men and placed them into barrels before dumping them into the sea.
He left behind a barrel in the house that Im staying at.
It took me two years before I pried it open out of curiosity.
It was camping gear, thank you baby Jesus.”
Recently, Reddit userdownwiththedownvotesasked, “Do you know anyone who’s ever committed murder?
What’s the story?”
and there were some heartbreaking, disturbing, and shocking stories.
Read on to hear what people had to say.
“I taught alongside a woman who would walk with her son to school every morning.
She was found murdered that summer.
It was pretty brutal.
We all hugged and comforted him afterward.
It was announced some time later that the son had been arrested for the crime.
He was convicted and is now serving life (dont remember if theres a chance of parole).”
u/rhapsody_in_bloo
2.
“Guy across the hall was a cool guy super laid-back.
We used to go over there and play retro video games and drink beers.
He’d always tell us about his girlfriend who was so busy with school he hardly saw her.
Never thought much about it.
Turns out she dumped him a while back, and he’d been stalking her.
He was sentenced to life in prison.”
u/EverytimeHammertime
3.
The next day after school, he comes home to hear his sister screaming in the garage.
“R was taken to juvie until his trial.
His sister was sent to live with an aunt.
He told me the adoptive parents were his ‘real’ parents.”
u/Grattytood
4.
“My father killed my mother and made it look like a suicide.
He admitted it to my sister after he had a stroke and lost his ability to filter his mouth.
Before she died, my mother had been getting 100% disability from the Veterans Administration.
He was bragging the day before the funeral about how much he would be getting.
He was so greedy and sadistic that I knew he did it all along.”
She was very sensitive and vulnerable.
He stole her money every time.
And yet the police believed him when he lied and said he never abused her or anyone else.
He would beat all of us when we lived with him.
u/Birdywoman4
5.
“I worked in nonprofit in Bellingham, Washington.
We offered emergency motel vouchers for homeless families.
Really nice guy and his son came in to get on the waiting list.
He missed his follow-up case management meeting, which I was surprised about.
It happens sometimes so I just assumed hed found something better.
Turns out he and his ‘son’ just went to another city so he could shoot people.
The ‘nice guy’ was theDC sniper.”
u/getthatcookietillie
6.
He had stabbed the guy 200+ times and mutilated him.
My family member went to their parents and convinced him to receive help.
My family member was charged with drunk driving as they were still hungover from the party.
They did nothing wrong but panic and make the situation progress to the safe apprehension of a murderer."
u/Teestow21
7.
“My wifes mother was abused by her second husband.
Its still there, it’s a gnarly scar, too).
After a few blows, he heard their 13-year-old son cry from the other side of the room.
He had been watching the whole thing.”
I do not fuck with my wifes family, LOL."
u/Alarmed-Bird4903
8.
“I was newly pregnant and meeting the rest of my in-laws during a holiday gathering.
Anyway, I also met her boyfriend.
He was charming, and my 6-year-old son loved him heck, even I was swooned by his charisma.
Maybe hes a changed man?
Err…a year later, I realized I havent heard about this man in a while.”
“When I asked the in-laws, there was a sudden silence.
Thats when I found out he murdered another man and tried dumping the body with the same method.
Youd think he would have learned his lesson by now.
:/ Awkward part is, he left behind a barrel in the house that Im staying at.
It took me two years before I pried it open out of curiosity.
It was camping gear, thank you baby Jesus.”
perpetual_glitch
9.
They were both heavy drinkers.
He was an absolute narcissist, and she could never do enough to make him happy.
I would stay overnight."
About six months later, I had a call from him requesting an overnight because his wife had died.
My first thought was wondering how he had killed her.
She had died from cyanide poisoning.
I met the detective for coffee we were both convinced he had killed his wife.
I was asked if I would continue to see him in the hope he would confess to me.
But he did end up dying from pancreatic cancer so that was a good thing.
A short piece for60 Minutesor20/20was made about the case called ‘Tainted Love.’
I appeared in it with my voice changed and my face blurred.
u/Zestyclose_Mix3046
10.
I told him to leave, and he told me to fuck off.
He shot her in the head a couple of weeks later.
The trial is still in progress.
I hope he gets life without parole."
“He was so jealous and controlling.
One time a man came in and seemed fond of Brandi and gave her some gifts.
It was so clearly not her fault that she got some cool stuff that day.
I still have the vinyl record that she gave me.
She always had bruises.
She left work early crying once because Jeremiah Rael stole her wallet.
The whole thing makes me sick.”
u/desertprincess69
11.
“I knew a man years ago who killed a man in a bar fight.
He hit the person in the head with a pool ball.
He was tried and convicted of negligent homicide and served 18 months in prison.
It was a heat of the moment thing.
He said he never thought it would have killed someone.”
u/Troubador222
12.
“My school friend when he was 17.
He was dating a girl from school for a few years.
She broke up with him because she was interested in ‘someone else.’
He ran over and punched his best friend in the nose.
His best friend was knocked out, fell backwards, and hit his head on the concrete.
He died before paramedics arrived.”
u/rob_the_plug
13.
He came at her, and she bent down and pulled the knife out of the holster.
When she came up, she stabbed him in the heart from under his ribs.
He died, and she walked free."
u/Conscious-Practice79
14.
“My best friend in high school had a boyfriend who creeped me the fuck out.
I told her to hang up and call 911.”
“(His mom survived multiple gunshot wounds.
Sadly, his dad did not.)
My friend did call 911; they intercepted him about half a mile away from her house.
I can actually remember seeing his car on the news that night.
Thankfully they didnt live closer to each other (maybe 20 minutes apart).
She wasnt physically hurt.
I think his intention was likely to kill her mom and run away with her.
u/onekrazykat
15.
“He was an asshole in school.
Never gave a shit about doing the right thing, always purposely pissing the teachers off.
But his older brother was the opposite.
He was loved by everyone.
He was an all-around goofy person, and worked with little kids in his free time and after graduation.
and pulled the trigger.
It was a huge loss to our community and school district.
I believe the younger brother was released early from prison due to the downsizing during COVID.
No idea where he is now.”
u/bee-salad
16.
“My friends partner…was a drug dealer and collected swords.
The purse contained belongings that were owned by her late family member.
She chased him out of the flat and tackled him to retrieve her purse.
Her partner followed with a sword, swinging and hitting the home invader on the top of the head.
The home invader walked around 10 meters and collapsed, dying in the middle of the street.”
They had been institutionalized for their entire life thereafter.
They would tell me where supplies and whatnot were kept.
u/MakingItUpAsWeGoOk
18.
Obviously, it was right after the murder, but we could not have known that at the time.
He was completely chill in every respect while my mom helped clean him up.
I went to school but was pulled out early by my uncle.
I got to my aunt’s house, and she told me what happened.
My mom was devastated.
We had no idea.
We’d even met his extended family, and they had never said a word about his past.
He thankfully was caught, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.”
u/Beer_sighted
19.
“My friend’s brother did a mass shooting.
It was 2007, and I remember I was home sick from school watching it live on CNN.
His suicide note was published online, and it specifically mentioned my friend.
Felt very surreal.”
u/bigdreams_littledick
20.
The cops obviously got involved.
u/tacknosaddle
21.
He was totally normal though a bit paranoid before that."
u/marcyandleela
22.
“My daughter shot and killed her abusive ex-boyfriend in front of me.
She had come to stay with us to get safe from him.
Every day we caught him in the yard.
Every day we called the cops.
Every day they did nothing.
The cops were two miles away, but they never showed.
Twenty minutes later, her ex got sick of waiting on her to give up and charged her.
She shot him at close range.
I told the police that she had shot him and he was on the ground.
No ambulance ever showed up, even though he was alive for a while after he was shot.”
You know how a grand jury meets once a month to decide if they will proceed with prosecution?
They didn’t decide for TWO YEARS.
Then they let her go.
u/Fluffy-Hotel-5184
23.
“Amandeep Atwal.Y’all can search it up her dad stabbed her 11 times for dating a white dude.
The community was stunned, but not surprised.
The dad was always a bit weird, but harsh.
He was ingrained in family culture and self-image.
How did I know her?
She was my babysitter, and even if I was 5, my first crush.”
He then proceeded to stab her 11 times, and claim it was her committing suicide.
She was barely entering her adult years, and he took her life to preserve his family image.
u/TheExaltedPrime
24.
“I had a cousin I knew years back.
He was a decent kid growing up, but went through a bit of abuse as a child.
When he hit 16/17, he started dabbling in some drugs which ended up triggering epilepsy in him.
He almost died one night from one of these seizures.
It was a scary thing to witness.
Once he came out of his bad seizure in the hospital, he just wasnt himself anymore.
“Months passed, and he was sent to jail over this incident.
When he got out, he was doing good for himself and even had a beautiful girlfriend.
But once again, his mental health deteriorated.
A couple years back, he went and got on to Facebook Live freaking out.
He was at his girlfriends house with her grandfather.
My cousin shot and killed her grandfather as well as his girlfriend all on Facebook Live.
His reasoning was that he believed she was having guys come gang rape him in his sleep.
In the end it destroyed a beautiful family as well as ruined my cousins family tremendously.”
u/Dabtoker3000
25.
“He was [a] dick.
He was the kind of bully that liked to stir up drama so he could instigate a fight.
They got in a car and shot into a house.
It turned out they had the wrong house.
They killed an old vet who was just watching TV.
His poor wife found him slumped over on the couch.”
“He wasn’t even friends with Mikey.
He was a dick to him.
I think he just wanted to kill somebody.”
u/HighlyOffensive10
26.
“I worked with one of theIrish scissor sisters.
They got drunk and high one night with their mom and her boyfriend.
u/Big_Pay_3491
27.
“My old barber murdered someone when he was 17 and served somewhere around 1213 years.
I was pretty young when he did it, but we knew each other back then.
You could tell when he was having a bad day.
u/alex8155
28.
He’s serving a life sentence now.”
She doesn’t work there anymore.
u/SilenceDoGood1138
29.
“My brother-in-law is in prison for life for killing his ex-friend-with-benefits who was married.
It was really hard on the family, but he had a history of being unstable and stalking women.
For whatever reason, a local police department still hired him.
I havent spoken to that friend since.
He could have literally prevented this from happening, but he did nothing.
Still makes me so sick to think about.”
u/EMMcRoz
30.
The Delphi, Indiana murders.I dont want to use the word ‘know.’
Its honestly disgusting to think about.”
u/Thegaymer42O
31.
“I knew a really nice foreign guy who ran a local restaurant.
He was well-known and liked in the town.
I found out years later he strangled his two kids and killed his wife before killing himself.
Still can’t make sense of it to this day.”
u/Leaderofmen
32.
“I graduated high school in 2001.
A guy in the class of 1998 was a wrestler and overall a popular guy.
He was huge and even in 2019 still held the school deadlift record for his weight class.
We will call him Frank.
The charge was second degree murder.
He claimed that he got into a fight with an undocumented immigrant and shot him in self defense.”
This all taking place in an abandoned farmhouse that neither had any association with.
I was also working that day, and they had to carry him back to the jail.
He was sobbing uncontrollably.
Normally, an inmate sentenced to state prison is transported within a week.
u/Lancaster1983
33.
“My great-great grandmother murdered my great-great grandfather.
My great grandmother, Gigi, told me the story.
When Gigi was 16, she was about to get married.
When dinner came, he brought a 12-year-old girl to the table.
When she opened the door, he had just dropped his pants, so she shot at his groin.
She sat and watched him bleed to death as the young girl said ‘thanks’ and left.”
u/Somerset76
34.
“My next door neighbor shot and killed his father when I was maybe 10 years old.
They kept arguing, then he went and got his fathers gun and shot him.
My mother had some medical training so she tried to help him the best she could.”
“An ambulance and at least 10 cop cars showed up and took over.
The son didnt run off and was arrested on the spot.
I dont remember how many years he got, but I never saw him again.
u/bootybiter123
35.
The teacher had a heart attack and died.
The dude was an absolute dick.
After he got out, he would bully teenagers.
I never kept up with him, but I’m pretty sure he got in more trouble.”
u/Ag3ntM1ck
36.
My aunt had been raped by two men a father and son duo.
When she came home and told my grandpa, he grabbed a gun and went out hunting.
He was never caught.
He passed away 20ish years ago.
He was a really cool guy.
Very nice and surprisingly tolerant and open-minded for his age, into new age spiritual stuff.”
u/Synicist
37.And finally… “Kevin.
A little different, but nobody that I would think would do what he did.
He was caught almost immediately.
u/babybutcho
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